The farmer's every-day book; or, Sketches of social life in the country - with the popular elements of practical and theoretical agriculture. Also, five hundred receipts on hygeian, domestic, and (14596487119)

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Title: The farmer's every-day book; or, Sketches of social life in the country : with the popular elements of practical and theoretical agriculture. Also, five hundred receipts on hygeian, domestic, and rural economy

Year: 1854 (1850s)

Authors: Blake, John Lauris, 1788-1857

Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Publisher: Auburn, Buffalo : Miller, Orton & Mulligan

Contributing Library: Boston Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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less hard feeling in the inter-course of trade, and more general prosperity among all classesof people. The ghost of many a veteran billShall hover round his slumbers. AGRICULTURE FAVORABLE TOLOCAL ATTACHMENTS. There is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy,No chemic art can counterfeit;It makes men rich in greatest poverty,Makes water wine, turns wooded cups to gold,The homely whistle to sweet musics, strain;Seldom it comes, to few from Heaven sent,That much is little—all in naught—Content In civilized life, the pleasures of Sweet Home are rankedwith our most refined enjoyments. They have been delineatedin the richest elegance of prose; they have been consecrated inthe sweetest strains of poetry; and music has given to them allthe charms of her witchery. The attachment which conducesto these pleasures is at the foundation of what is called patri-otism and all well-ordered society, whether in the family or in The miser lives poor to die rich, and is only the turnkey of his wealth.

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that its influence begins at the cradle, and only ends in the LOCAL ATTACHMENTS. 221 the commonwealth. This attachment is interwoven with allour ideas of moral beauty. It awakens our sympathy andcommands our homage wherever we behold it. If our aspira-tions and our hopes transport us to the contemplation of theheavenly world, it is to behold in their full perfection the sub-lime essence of these pleasures. Heaven is viewed as our finalhome; its bliss supreme, and never to be ahenated! Moreover, so important is this principle of attachment tohome, that we involuntarily respect and prize it, even in thebrute creation. When our herds at the close of each day, oftheir own accord, return from their wanderings for sustenance,to sleep in the yards and under the inspection of their owner,do we manifest no signs of gratification ? When the mute cows,with distended udders, in the regularity of the setting sun andof the approach of evening twilight, cast their beseeching lookson the waiting dair

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